> On Oct 5, 2018, at 11:17 PM, Dane Trethowan <[email protected]> wrote:
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> I can’t answer yes or no to that as I’m not exactly sure of the function with 
> Winamp that you’re talking about.
> I was never an advanced Winamp user.
> Yep, Winamp did everything I wanted it to do until it started causing 
> problems here.
> I like like a lot of others here I’m sure was quite happy to pay the $19 I 
> think it was upgrade fee to Winamp Pro.
> That’s all in the past now and the past will not be coming back so make the 
> most of and use what we have.
> 
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>> On 6 Oct 2018, at 11:44 am, Tom Kaufman <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> One of the things I loved about Winamp is the ability to punch in a number 
>> in a file and have the player go right to that spot!  Can VLC do that?  And 
>> if so, how is that done?
>> Tom Kaufman
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dane 
>> Trethowan
>> Sent: Friday, October 05, 2018 9:30 PM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: [all-audio] Differences between Winamp and VLC?
>> 
>> Well there is hope, VLC will keep getting better so there’s your hope, the 
>> more people who use the software then the more feedback the developers get.
>> 
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>>> On 6 Oct 2018, at 11:26 am, Tom Kaufman <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Yes...and that is what I am sorry about (that Winamp is not actively being
>>> developed) guess one can always hope--smile!
>>> Tom Kaufman
>>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dane
>>> Trethowan
>>> Sent: Friday, October 05, 2018 9:13 PM
>>> To: [email protected]
>>> Subject: Re: [all-audio] Diferences between Winamp and VLC?
>>> 
>>> Point taken and that's fair enough.
>>> By the way there's another difference between VLC and Winamp, one is being
>>> actively developed and the other hasn't been for quite some time <smile>.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Byron Stephens
>>> Sent: Saturday, 6 October 2018 10:33 AM
>>> To: [email protected]
>>> Subject: Re: [all-audio] Diferences between Winamp and VLC?
>>> 
>>> I don't even use any equalizers at least not software, but a twenty band
>>> hardware unit I would and will.
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Dane Trethowan" <[email protected]>
>>> To: <[email protected]>
>>> Sent: Friday, October 5, 2018 5:20 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [all-audio] Diferences between Winamp and VLC?
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> For what its worth from me and thanks for starting this discussion.
>>>> Its been a very long while since I used Winamp, why did I stop using it?
>>>> Because Winamp kept crashing when I tried to play video files recorded 
>>>> in standard TS format from my video TV tuners that I use still ttill 
>>>> this day though different models obviously.
>>>> So then began my search for a new player that was easy to use and did 
>>>> what I believe a player needs to do, play the track when I press play, 
>>>> move to the next track or skip through a track when I press or hold 
>>>> the forward button etc.
>>>> VLC did these things and many more besides.
>>>> I grant you, VLC is not the friendliest App to get around but one can 
>>>> get around much of it using the JAWS cursor or whatever your thing is 
>>>> called on your Screen Reader.
>>>> If I had my way equalisers in players wouldn't be present.
>>>> I know I sound harsh but the amount of times I've seen equalisers 
>>>> abused to the point that people manage to stuff their speaker systems 
>>>> up causes me to perhaps take this view.
>>>> A good sounding pair of speakers which don't cost all that much these 
>>>> days shouldn't require any additional medaling in the form of an
>>> equaliser.
>>>> I went to someone's house the other day, this chap had what I would 
>>>> call a perfectly serviceable pair of Altec Lansing computer speakers, 
>>>> well at least I would have termed this speaker system in that way when 
>>>> it was bought but after this chap had applied God only knows how many 
>>>> equalisers in the audio chain? Well this respectable speaker system 
>>>> had been turned to the sound of mud literally, sure! Enough bottom but 
>>>> for what, to demolish the house and perhaps Next doors dwelling too? 
>>>> It certainly didn't sound good.
>>>> And the top, well it was there but incredibly harsh to the point that 
>>>> my ears felt sore just trying to listen to the thing.
>>>> Where was the Mid-range? Lost somewhere in the cocofany of noise.
>>>> Anyway back to the point of VLC and I'm very pleased to say that the 
>>>> developers are slowly but surely making accessibility fixes as updates 
>>>> roll out and I reckon they're doing a fair job since VLC is an open 
>>>> source package.
>>>> I use VLC on other devices such as my Apple Mac machines, iPhone and 
>>>> iPads and Android with pleasing results.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of JM Casey
>>>> Sent: Saturday, 6 October 2018 8:05 AM
>>>> To: [email protected]
>>>> Subject: Re: [all-audio] Diferences between Winamp and VLC?
>>>> 
>>>> The VlC equalizer is certainly a lot less convenient to set and save 
>>>> settings than the Winamp one using a screen-reader. One can easily 
>>>> adopt any of the presets, but saving your own settings requires 
>>>> messing with the not-too-accessible filters within the preferences 
>>>> dialog box. Actually the whole design is weird and I wish that Video 
>>>> Lan gave the ability to easily save and load multiple equalizer 
>>>> settings in VLC.
>>>> 
>>>> Just curious, but why not have both programmes? I watch a lot of 
>>>> movies, especially with my sighted partner, and VLC is without doubt
>>>> an awesome video player and far more versatile and just better at this 
>>>> than winamp ever was. However, I still use Winamp for my audio needs 
>>>> and it works exceedingly well for this purpose even in Windows 10.
>>>> 
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Brian 
>>>> Olesen
>>>> Sent: October 5, 2018 5:50 PM
>>>> To: [email protected]
>>>> Subject: [all-audio] Diferences between Winamp and VLC?
>>>> 
>>>> Hi all you nice audiofiles,
>>>> 
>>>> Well I use VLC myself, but I have an old fascion student, who prefers 
>>>> Winamp.
>>>> 
>>>> I want to persuade him to do the switch.
>>>> 
>>>> But how is it with information about timing lenghth of files in 
>>>> minutes and seconds and such. Can we easily get to that info also in 
>>>> VLC?
>>>> 
>>>> Are there other fields where VLC lacks information compared to Winamp?
>>>> 
>>>> Is it actually the other way around?
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Best regards
>>>> 
>>>> Brian
>>>> 
>>>> 
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>>>> 
>>>> Believe it or not guys, I still use Windows Media Player too. Because of 
>>>> the SRS Wow virtual surround sound effect you can turn on.
>>>> 
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